AMAZING video. And you really can’t argue with who is the undisputed best double-action revolver shooter in the world.
I may have to try that crossed-thumbs hold when shooting my Ruger LCR .357. It feels weird to cross my thumbs behind the gun, but it also feels REALLY good with my hands on the revolver.
The lunches at my schools sucked…but this is another thing!
Nineteen of the 23 children who died after eating a tainted free school meal in India’s Bihar state have been buried in and around the school grounds.
Angry parents say they want the graves to serve as a reminder that the children died due to state negligence.
A doctor at the local hospital said a chemical used in pesticides was the likely cause of contamination.
In all, 47 primary school children fell ill after consuming the meal of rice and soybeans on Tuesday.
23 Dead and many more sick. If this had been a gun it would be the only news we’d hear about….now its just a foot note. How sick are the “Gun Death” people that this story isn’t even relevant!
H/T Wallphone
Man Joan just has to be straight up dumb to write this:
If you have been reading this blog, you know that I have been writing about how often “law abiding” gun owners and gun permit holders have been shooting other people or causing trouble in our communities. Owning a gun comes with risks. I wrote about this in my latest 2 blog posts. In fact, if you decide to own a gun for self protection, you need to realize that gun owners are more at risk than non gun owners in an assault
Of course her link to the “Study” is Broken, here’s the study. Its old, and heavily rebuked From the study itself:
However, compared with control participants, shooting case participants were significantly more often Hispanic, more frequently working in high-risk occupations1,2, less educated, and had a greater frequency of prior arrest. At the time of shooting, case participants were also significantly more often involved with alcohol and drugs, outdoors, and closer to areas where more Blacks, Hispanics, and unemployed individuals resided. Case participants were also more likely to be located in areas with less income and more illicit drug trafficking
Read that as “The people most likely to be shot are people who CRIMINALLY posses a firearm, likely while engaging in illegal activities”.
Joan is demanding lawful gun owners give up their guns, and claims that gun owners make us LESS safe. Meanwhile the people committing the overwhelming bulk of violent crimes are people who are already classified as illegal criminals.
This is also how the Arthur Kellermann study was framed. He made no exception to weather the attacker or the defender was engaging in a legal activity at the time of the shooting, nor did he care if the people WITH the guns legally owned them. Kellermann used further deceit by qualifying that a successful “Self Defense” meant a dead body in your house. In lawful gun defense the bulk of these events have no shots fired, or non-fatal wounds.
Nonfatal gun woundings are far more frequent than fatal shootings. In 1985 Cook reviewed data that indicate that about 15% of assault-linked gunshot wounds known to the police are fatal, implying a ratio of about 5.67 (85/15) reported nonfatal assaultive gun woundings to each fatal one. Assuming the same applies to legal civilian defensive shootings, there were between 6,300 and 15,300 reported nonfatal, legally permissible woundings of criminals by gun-armed civilians in 1990. Combining the defensive killings and nonfatal woundings, there are about 7,700 to 18,500 reported legal shootings of criminals a year, which would be less than 1% of all defensive gun uses. The rest of defensive gun uses, then, involve neither killings nor woundings but rather misses, warning shots fired, or guns used to threaten, by pointing them or verbally referring to them.
They are selling fear via misdirection. How about this study, Joan? Look at the number of guns being bought in NICS Checks! Joan Herself noticed the ammo shortages….yet violent crime is DOWN. Can you guess who’s responsible for people thinking its UP?
Still the crux of this blatant and calculated lie is to hide what lawful gun owners have been saying FOREVER! ENFORCE THE LAWS ON THE BOOKS!
We don’t even NEED NICS Background checks, bans on magazines or firearms types, bans on certain weapons. Hell even Carry permits are irrelevant here. If you are a convicted felon you cannot own a gun. PERIOD…FULL STOP! Doesn’t matter if its a .50 BMG rifle, an AR-15, a Glock with a 33 round magazine, or a pink cricket .22 Rifle. If you are a felon, and you are possessing any form of firearm you are committing a crime, you can be charged with a crime, and you can have all guns in your possession taken away from you.
If you don’t have a criminal record, but you are committing a felony while possessing a gun YOU ARE COMMITTING A CRIME AND CAN BE CHARGED AND PROSECUTED, AND CAN HAVE ALL YOUR GUNS TAKEN AWAY FROM YOU!!
Simply Enforce the Laws on the Books, and dump all the extra crap. Cops should be rounding up the known, armed criminals, and frankly we should be locking them up forever, or executing them. I don’t say this for any sense of justice, or for retribution, but just for public safety. (you know, the thing that Joan CLAIMS motivates her as she shills for violent criminals)
Again the law could simply leave those of us who play by the rules alone, and even lay off on the bullshit we need to go through, and just stick it to the criminals.
Hell I just googled “Chicago Shooting”, and I got an article fresh from the presses:
Shootings left three men dead and at least 14 others wounded from early Saturday afternoon to early morning Sunday, according to authorities.
In the most recent shooting, at 4:35 a.m. Sunday morning, a man was killed and three women shot near the intersections of Springfield and Wilcox avenues in the East Garfield Park neighborhood on the West Side.
The man, 24, was dead on arrival at Mount Sinai Hospital after suffering a shot to the chest, police said. One of the women, 21, was in serious-to-critical condition at Mt. Sinai after being shot in the chest and back. Another woman, 23, had her condition stabilized at Mount Sinai after being shot in both feet, and the third woman, 20, suffered a graze wound and refused transport to a hospital.
Additional details about the circumstances surrounding that shooting weren’t immediately available.
We don’t need much to dig into the very numbers Joan is pushing. There IS no legal carry of any kind in Illinois right now. So there’s a felony, and all of these guns could have been confiscated by police on the spot. I think we don’t need to stretch far to know that these people were likely involved in gang activity and by proxy the illegal drug trade.
The fact that the antis work so hard to hide these facts, while working double-time to conflate the legal gun owners with these criminals shows exactly how nefarious they are.
Well that was just what the doctor ordered!
Arrived at our tent on Lake Champlain, unpacked and immediately took a nap before dinner! Next day was more naps, and a LOT of reading between playing with the nieces and nephews and shooting the breeze with the family.
Been under a lot of stress from work, and taking care of Mrs. Weer’d. Who is doing fine, but understandably needs a bit more help and attention. So this week of fresh air and relaxation really re-charged the batteries.
So for reading I plodded through The Happiest Baby on the Block, which In think is the book version of a DVD. Overall its anthropological take on child rearing is really interesting to me. Still the book is heavy on pages and light on content, so I’ll shelf it for now, and dust it off if I find I haven’t mastered the techniques outlined in the book when I have a real-deal baby in my arms.
Next was Cart Blanche a modern re-boot of Ian Flemming’s James Bond novels, and fully licensed by the Flemming estate. Its a full-reboot of the series where James Bond did his military service not in WWII (as Flemming also did) but in Afganistan for the currently ongoing conflict. Also many of the re-occurring characters are rejuvenated and appear. All of the characters that show up from older Bond books are first seen in Casino Royal, but there is no reference to the events in that book, or a new history to Bond where he might have first encountered them. This makes the book ideal for both a stand-alone novel for those with no history with the books or films, but also full of great Easter Eggs for those who (like Deaver) are deeply versed with the 007 Character. Overall the plot line is impeccable, as is the writing. It was a VERY quick read. My only complaint was Bond’s usage of a Walther PPS in .40 S&W as his primary gun. He never carries it in deep concealment, and he finds himself in frequent shootouts, I’d imagine he’d be better served by any of the larger Walthers, or from the various SIG pistols…if he’s tied to German guns. A S&W M&P9c would be really badass IMHO in Bond’s belt. Since this new Bond is constantly wearing 5.11 gear, maybe an American pistol might serve him better. And you all know I do hate .40 S&W….tho Bond’s PPK from the early books was in 7.65x17mm Browning because the round’s ubiquity in the various nations in the 1960s, maybe .40 S&W is easier to find…it certainly is now in America.
I also read in record time “Suddenly, the Cider Didn’t Taste So Good”, written by a Maine Author my Father met and procured me a signed copy for my birthday. According to Dad his oral story telling is even better than his writing. He’s going to be speaking again in Maine to promote his latest book, and I’ll try to be there to get a signed copy of this one in person, and hear his accounts first-hand.
The book is REALLY good, its more of a rambling collection of funny stories from the woods of Central Maine from a retired Maine Game Warden who wasn’t afraid to rub elbows with the various poachers and ne’er-do-wells who were mostly interesting people who occasionally violated fish and game laws. I loved it, and hearing a few stories from it my 8-year-old niece started plowing through it. Its a really fun read, especially if you like crazy back-woods stories, and animals.
Last, I’m a good way through Dead Six, which is just as magnificent as everything Larry has written. It is NON stop action, and sports a plot so twisty that I’m both engrossed and befuddled right now. Like all of Larry’s books, I couldn’t recommend it more.
Last up I thought I’d share this with you all. While sitting on my deck reading a book my Sister-in-Law decided it would be fun to paint my toenails. I’ve been waking up to this every morning since:
Its been a surprise every morning when I see my shiny blue toes looking back at me. The kids were also deeply amused to see their big hairy uncle sporting the prettiest toes at camp.
Back to work tomorrow!
No body…no gun.
An 18-year-old Puyallup man is being held on suspicion of first-degree murder, and Pierce County sheriff’s detectives are searching for the body of the man he’s accused of killing.
Prosecutors allege Michael Jason Scharpf Breer killed Justin Morris on or about July 10, then disposed of his body at an unknown location. Wednesday, Superior Court Commissioner Meagan Foley ordered Breer held for 72 hours, with arraignment to follow Friday….Based on the patterns of blood stains, detectives guessed that Morris was struck several times on a couch, then slid down to a carpet while more blows fell on his head.
No body, and no “Gun Death”…according to the antis there isn’t even a crime!
H/T Barron
A suspect in the stabbing death of a 6-year-old girl whose body was found in a trash can only days after she disappeared from a suburban New Orleans apartment has confessed to the killing, a sheriff said Wednesday.
Monsters like this are wandering around, and not only do the creeps that use the metric of “Gun Death” want me to NOT carry my guns, but they’d rather I not have my guns at all!
Thanks, but no thanks!
Police say a Massachusetts woman was fatally injured when she fell from a golf cart after attending a wedding reception in northwestern Indiana.
Why does anybody NEEEEED a golf cart?
H/t JB
What’s the point of locking up criminals if you don’t actually lock them up?
A “dangerous” man being sought by police investigating the death of a man stabbed while protecting a neighbour, was a murderer on day release.
The beast was on a day release from prison, and decided to spend the time robbing people. When somebody stepped in he stabbed them to death.
This is why I’m in favor of the death penalty. People are the dangerous weapons, and when somebody is found to be so wanton and monstrous, we really don’t need to keep them around. This man did more damage with a single knife in one day, than I’ve done with HUNDREDS of guns in a lifetime!
One of the oldest and most destructive inventions:
A western Pennsylvania man is facing charges for allegedly dousing a 7-year-old boy with flammable liquid and then doing nothing when his shirt caught on fire.
Add insult to injury:
Myers allegedly used his cellphone to film the May 25 attack on his girlfriend’s son. Police say the unidentified boy needed hospital treatment for third-degree burns on his face and chest. He also had welts on his forehead from allegedly being shot with pellets from an air gun.
FILMED IT! Classy! Not a “Gun Death”!
What’s more heavily Regulated than explosive technicians?
Wow, what a disaster! But not a “Gun Death”!
